war-weariness
English
Etymology
war-weary + -ness
Noun
war-weariness (uncountable)
- A state of exhaustion brought on by fighting in a war.
- 2013, Molly Lefebure, Murder on the Home Front, →ISBN:
- Bouts of war-weariness now began to grip me from time to time, rather after the fashion of bouts of malaria.
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- Weariness of war.
- 2013, Martha Finnemore, The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force, →ISBN:
- One common imputed cause of this changed attitude toward force in the nineteenth century and the anomalous peace of that century in general is war-weariness.
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Alternative forms
- warweariness